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bigdarryl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-27-10 08:21 PM Original message |
I guess the media just said fuck Haiti |
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JI7 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-27-10 08:23 PM Response to Original message |
1. the Chile quake just happened today |
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The_Casual_Observer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-27-10 08:25 PM Response to Original message |
2. Haiti dropped out of the 7-day news cycle after 7 days. |
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bigdarryl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-27-10 08:26 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Yeap exactly what Joe Madison predicted last week |
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spiritual_gunfighter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 02:31 PM Response to Reply #2 |
23. CNN is still covering it every night n/t |
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Kutjara (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-27-10 08:25 PM Response to Original message |
3. Actually, most of the news seems to be saying "fuck Chile" too. |
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Cha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-27-10 08:28 PM Response to Reply #3 |
7. Or palin has another |
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TankLV (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 02:14 PM Response to Reply #3 |
21. I noticed that too. |
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gateley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-27-10 08:25 PM Response to Original message |
4. They were just talking about the magnitude, bigdarryl -- they've also |
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bigdarryl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-27-10 08:28 PM Response to Reply #4 |
8. but you see no news reporters on TV from Haiti like the first week |
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gateley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-27-10 11:04 PM Response to Reply #8 |
17. Oh -- I don't dispute that. They didn't even cover Katrina after the first week or |
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Jennicut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-27-10 08:26 PM Response to Original message |
6. It is a bigger Earthquake but I doubt the death toll will even be a smidgen of what it was in Haiti |
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davidpdx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-27-10 10:05 PM Response to Reply #6 |
15. It does look like from the initial pictures that Haiti was flattened |
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timeforpeace (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-27-10 08:33 PM Response to Original message |
9. Way, way way bigger than Haiti. Which makes the disparate death totals seem strange. |
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boppers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-27-10 08:47 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. Not only different construction but different epicenter, living conditions, |
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GreenPartyVoter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-27-10 09:17 PM Response to Reply #11 |
14. Different type of land too, I imagine. Isn't Haiti very sandy? |
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imnKOgnito (132 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-27-10 09:02 PM Response to Reply #9 |
13. Nothing strange about it at all. |
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Jennicut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 08:14 AM Response to Reply #9 |
18. Haiti experienced a more shallow quake besides having buildings that easily collapse. |
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xchrom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-27-10 08:37 PM Response to Original message |
10. OPz like this are our version of Pat Robertsons |
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Imajika (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-27-10 08:55 PM Response to Original message |
12. Yeah, people are bored of the Haiti earthquake now... |
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FrenchieCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-27-10 10:10 PM Response to Original message |
16. Death Toll in Haiti was 300,000, while Chile will not even get close to close..... |
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TankLV (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 02:21 PM Response to Reply #16 |
22. If you do not understand the difference, then I can't help you. |
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LatteLibertine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 11:57 AM Response to Original message |
19. Haiti vs Chile also |
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phleshdef (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 12:09 PM Response to Original message |
20. Its not luck. Chile is better off because of "big government regulation". |
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USfirst1 (2 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-01-10 09:29 PM Response to Reply #20 |
26. Big Government |
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4lbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 02:41 PM Response to Original message |
24. Somehow, I don't see hundreds of celebrities getting a benefit concert together for Chile. (n/t) |
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themaguffin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 07:33 PM Response to Original message |
25. that's a VERY premature statement. |
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